After this has been done all around, the caulking iron is held in such a position that the lead around the hub will receive the force of the blow.
The caulking iron is again taken and the lead next to the pipe is tamped, striking the iron with the hammer at an angle to drive the lead against the pipe.
The caulking of the lead in this position is the same as in the previous position and should be carried out closely.
This joint should be wiped very slim to allow room for the caulking irons to pass by it and get into the hub of the pipe.
If a short bend fitting is used, the matter of caulking is difficult.
These fittings and pipe are joined by first caulking with oakum and pouring, with one continuous pour, the hub full of molten metal.
The caulking must not be done by hitting heavy blows as there is a possibility of splitting the hub and thereby rendering the joint unfit for use.
When the lead has cooled, set the lead with the caulking tool and hammer, making one blow on each side of the joint.
The body of the clean-out ferrule must be at least equal in weight and thickness to the caulking ferrule for the same size pipe.
This joint should be wiped very slim to allow room for the caulking tools.
The caulking of fittings, while done the same as a straight pipe, is far more difficult.
Therefore, we will go over in detail only the caulking of the joints in the various positions.
This job brings in the caulkingof pipes, traps, and fittings in various positions.
Caulking and painting, tarring down and squaring ratlines, &c.
Ballasting the barque, and overhauling and setting up our topmast and lower rigging, and caulking decks.
Getting the battery to rights, and caulking the screw-well, which leaks badly when she is under way.
As the sun crossed the line the weather moderated, and by the 25th of September all was again calm and fair, and the crew busy caulking the decks, which had leaked terribly during the gales.
We commenced caulking our leaky decks to-day, and despatched the launch to assist in ballasting the barque.
Down on the mud banks of the Tinto, where at low water the vessels were left high and dry, and where the caulking and refitting were in hand, there was trouble with the workmen.
Things could not be found; gear mysteriously gave way after it had been set up; the caulkingwas found to have been carelessly and imperfectly done; and when the caulkers were commanded to do it over again they decamped.
Among the ancients the first who made use of pitch in caulking were the inhabitants of Phæacia, afterwards called Corfu.
It is used in a hot state with oakum in caulking the ship to fill the chinks or intervals between her planks.
It is principally used in caulking the seams, for stopping leaks, and for making into twice-laid ropes.
When the ship's labouring forces the caulking out of her seams.
A caulking mallet is employed to drive the oakum into the seams of a ship.
One of the caulker's tools; it has a groove in it, and is used after the caulking iron to finish off the seam.
Where caulking is not used, the butts or joints of the planks are sometimes rabbeted, and fayed close, whence they are thus denominated.
The finely laminated inner bark of the trunks is also a valuable article of commerce, especially adapted for the caulking of ships and barges, and is worth about eighteen shillings the cwt.
For use, it is stirred up with just enough water to thoroughly moisten it, and it is rammed or caulked into the joints with a blunt caulking chisel and hammer, after which the joint is screwed up by its bolts as tightly as possible.
As we durst not cut away the lining within board, lest a but end or a plank might start, and we might go down immediately, we had no other resource {291} left than chincing and caulking within board.
The hull was made water-tight by caulking the seams of the planking.
Flax was certainly used forcaulking in the time of Alexander the Great, and a similar material has continued to be employed for this purpose down to the present day.
In addition to caulking the seams, it was also customary to coat over the bottom with pitch, and the Romans, at any rate, used sometimes to sheath their galleys with sheet lead fastened to the planking with copper nails.
This is not only used for caulking canoes, but for mending roof rolls of birch bark and other things.
The Flambeau and Couderay Ojibwe used these roots to sew canoes, and from incisions in the bark gathered the resin to be boiled with tallow to make pitch for caulking canoes.
The Flambeau Ojibwe use the pitch from the boiled cones, along with the resin that flows from boxed trees, for caulking and waterproofing purposes.
Scotty had his rifle, a small first-aid kit, and a wooden caulking mallet.
The sun blazed down from nearly overhead at noon until the caulking in the deck bubbled and the sea seemed to steam.
We improved the leisure, by exercising the men at the guns, and caulking the decks, which were again beginning to let water enough through them, to inconvenience the men in their hammocks below.
We did not need coal, but we had some caulking of the bends, and replacing of copper about the water-line to do, and some slight repairs to put upon our engine.
This platform must then be covered thinly and evenly with mastic cement and the boiler be set down upon it, and the cement must be caulked beneath the boiler by means of wooden caulking tools, so as completely to fill every vacuity.
The usual mode now is for one man to caulk the seams with a hammer in one hand and a caulking chisel in the other, and in some of the difficult corners of marine flue boilers it is not easy for two men to get in.
A good deal of the caulking has also sometimes to be done with the left hand.
It rained all last night, and though thecaulking did good, there was still some water came in around the surbases.
All hands are stuffing caulking around the windows and trying to keep in some of the heat.
Before daylight faded he had helped Miles to get the big boat out, and carefully inspected the seams to make sure that no caulking was required.
But the worst of it was that Astor had mixed some of it with a lot of caulking pitch, which of course is quite spoiled, and he was about the maddest man in Keewatin on the day that he found it out.
Oily Dave was up here about a week ago, and he said that he had some buckets of rough fat that would do for greasing sledge runners, or to mix with caulking pitch.
On the 6th in the evening, our supply of provisions was received, and the caulking of the ship completed.
The ship had never made more than three inches of water in an hour, after leaving the Cape of Good Hope; so that much caulking was not required, either within or out board.
I had left the caulking at one end nearly intact, so the solid piece laid back like a trap-door.
Three bells struck while I was still whittling and digging at the caulking in the seams with my sheath knife.
The stress and strain of the night before made the few hours of "caulking off," that we now enjoyed, particularly grateful.
Pitch was a dark-colored viscous substance obtained as a residue in distilling pine tar, and widely used for caulking seams of boats.
PITCH AND TAR Pitch and tar--used by shipbuilders from time immemorial for caulking and covering seams of vessels--were made at Jamestown as early as 1608.
The caulkingwas not yet half done when the boys were startled by a loud report, like that of a gun.
Dan did not stop his repairs, however, and presently the task of caulkingwas finished.
Every vessel had been thoroughly repaired, but many were so rotten that thecaulking was considered by the English shipwrights as quite unreliable for a long voyage.
All hands are engaged in caulking ship, re-hoisting yards, rigging, &c.
You can surely do the caulking of seams, after which I'll paint her.
It might be managed, perhaps, and he decided to do the caulking as requested by Roberts.
Perry declared proudly that they had done a "caulking job!
In the meanwhile the others, directed by Phil, were stuffing the worst of the seams with strips of muslin, using table knives for caulking irons.
If it is necessary to make a cask, the pieces forming the discs used for the heads should be dowelled together, with a bit of pith of reed, or other caulking material between them, and the circumference must be thinned off to an obtuse edge.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "caulking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
